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See also:MARTYN, See also:JOHN (1699-1768) , See also:English botanist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 12th of See also:September 1699. Originally intended for a business career, he abandoned it in favour of medical and botanical studies. He was one of the founders (with J. J. See also:Dillen and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the See also:Rainbow See also:Coffee-See also:house, Watling See also:Street; he also started the See also:Grub Street See also:Journal, a weekly satirical See also:review, which lasted from 1730 to 1737. In 1732 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in See also:Cambridge University, but, finding little encouragement and hampered by lack of appliances, he soon discontinued lecturing. He retained his professorship, however, till 1762, when he resigned in favour of his son See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas (1735-1825), author of See also:Flora rustica (1792-1794). Although he had not taken a medical degree, he See also:long practised as a physician at See also:Chelsea, where he died on the 29th of See also:January 1768. His reputation chiefly rests upon his Historia plantarum rariorum (1728-1737), and his See also:translation, with valuable agricultural _and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of See also:Virgil. On resigning the botanical See also:chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books.
See memoir by Thomas Martyn in See also:Memoirs of John Martyn and Thomas Martyn, by G. C. Gorham (183o).
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